Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3

Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

DNA Research ships 3Delight for 3ds Max 2.0

RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Next Limit releases Maxwell Render 3.1

Physically based renderer adds spotlights, OpenVDB and UDIM support, smart selective sampling.

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards

This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Next Limit releases RealFlow RenderKit 2014

Free RF tool for meshing particles at render time gets better Arnold support, system for surface spray.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

Sneak peek: Houdini 14

Demo video shows crowds, OpenVDB-based grooming, and position-based dynamics - from sand to squids.

Monday, December 8th, 2014

Next Limit unveils Maxwell Render 3.1

VFX-friendly release to add support for OpenVDB, Mari's UDIM textures, improved skin rendering system.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

SolidAngle releases Arnold for Houdini

New Houdini to Arnold plugin now available to download alongside the Maya and Softimage versions.

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Thinkbox Software releases Stoke MX 2.0 for 3ds Max

Increasingly versatile simulation tool now incorporates firm's $595 Genome geometry modifier.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.2 for 3ds Max

Fluid simulation system gets internal self-illumination, simulation morphing controls, PRT and OpenVDB support.

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

Thinkbox Software unveils Stoke MX 2.0

Updated and now in open beta: high-density 3ds Max particle toolkit gets new field-manipulation tools.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta

Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.

Monday, November 4th, 2013